Ron Gilad's artful and playful approach has major firms lining up to commission new designs

Ron Gilad

Ron Gilad

Ron Gilad uses the word play repeatedly when he describes his approach to design. Gilad plays with angles. He plays with cubes. He plays with degrees. He especially likes to toy with perception, creating objects that seem to defy logic and utility, yet solve problems that we may never have known we had.

Girella bench in marble for Salvatori

Girella bench in marble for Salvatori

“I’m like a child,” says the Israeli-born designer. “My clients ask me to do one thing and I do another.” In fact, Gilad points to his childhood in Tel Aviv, where he grew up in a Bauhaus apartment with very little, as the time he first began to see the world through specific filters.